Madeline and Marion Fairbanks

[1] Born in New York City, the twins were mainly educated by private tutors at home and while traveling.

The Fairbanks twins began their stage career in The Bluebird at the New Theatre in New York, NY.

As the Thanhouser Kids they appeared in films such as Cousins (1913), The Flying Twins (1915), The Bird of Prey (1916), and The Answer (1916); on Broadway, they in the Ziegfeld Follies (1917–20), Mercenary Mary (1925), Oh, Kay!

(1926), Allez-Oop (1927) and Happy (1927); Marion appeared solo in Grab Bag (1924) and on a tour of Little Nellie Kelly.

1930s news accounts reported that she operated a beauty parlor and directed a branch of a cosmetics manufacturer.